Explain Everything, Haiku Deck, Scribble Press and Scribble My Story

Last Friday, Catherine introduced the following four Apps to a group from the Lower School.  All have come highly recommended as  great resources for project-based learning.  Following are her notes.  As always, please let us know if you have any questions about any of the Apps:

Explain Everything

This app has been installed on 20 ipads in the Lower School

·         Create as many slides as you want

·         Save projects and edit later

·         Insert audio, video, text, photos from the ipad’s camera roll or photos taken while working in Explain Everything

·         Draw with a brush/pen using multiple colors

·         Add pointing arrows.  Easy to Undo and/or delete anything

·         Insert anything from the internet

·         Save projects to the ipad’s camera roll; export projects via email, save as a PDF (no audio or video on these PDFs)

Following are a few screen shots follow to help illustrate the program:

Haiku Deck – Free

·         Create slideshows/presentations/pretty reports

·         Show them on the smart board

·         Email them

·         Save as a PDF
We have used this extensively in the Upper School







Following are a few screen shots follow to help illustrate the program:

Scribble Press

·         Create stories starting with a blank book

·         Save stories and edit them later

·         Use different color markers and stickers for illustrating your book

·         Use speech bubbles

·         Type text

·         Add a background color to your pages (must be same color for every page)

·         Customize the front cover and the back cover (with author’s name, bio and photo)

·          Sharing:  Email a link to your story; open in iBooks; save as a PDF

Following are a few screen shots follow to help illustrate the program:

 Scribble My Story – fun app (Free) b/c it has an audio component to it where the student can also narrate their story (in addition to typing, drawing, etc.).  The issue is that I haven’t been able to share it or save it as a PDF yet.  That means you have to open this app in order to look at the finished product. 

Email I received from Scibble My Story:  You can register with an email account and then can download your stories as pdfs.  Use the DONE button in order to send an email of your story to yourself. 
Post script: I did all of this and still cannot access my stories anywhere (or share them).  I emailed Heather Regan again on 4/18 but no response yet.  Stay tuned….. 

Following are a few screen shots follow to help illustrate the program: